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                ISSN 0256-2316
9OTSWANAJOURNAl
OF AFRICAN STUDIES
             \tOl. 4
               NO.2
      NOVEMBER 84


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Prof. M. Crowder
Mr E Kupe
Mr I. Ndai-Paulos
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Mr F. Youngman
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    Prof. L D Ngcongco
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 CONTENTS
Articles
      REFLECTIONS      ON THE BOTSWANA LAW OF COMPANY
     ACCOUNTS IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE BENCO CRASH
           Peter Nanyenya Takirambudde
      PROTESTANTISM      AND THE SPIRIT      OF SOCIOLOGY:  AN  II
     AFRO-CARIBBEAN        CASE STUDY
           M.l.A. Glickman
     REGIONAL COOPERATION           FOR DEVELOPMENT: AN ANA-   26
     LYSIS OF THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COOR-
     DINATION CONFERENCE
           David S. Cownie
     WHY SWAZILAND        DOES NOT HAVE AN OLD AGE PROBLEM     50
           Margo Russell
     LEIBNEZ' PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON AND THE           56
     CHEWA CONCEPT OF DETERMINISM: AN INTERPRETATIVE
     ESSAY
           D. Njirayamanda   Kaphagawani
     INDUSTRIAL      DEVELOPMENT       IN BOTSWANA   PROSPECTS 61
     FOR INDIGENOUS INVESTOR PARTICIPATION
           Webster Masenya
Reviews
           Michael Crowder                                     76
           D.L. Kgathi                                         79


 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
DAVID S. COWNIE, B.A. M.A. is a candidate for the Ph.D in Political Science at the University of
Houston, Texas. An author of several articles in learned journals, he is also the editor since 1984 of the
Western Association of Africanists Newsletter.
MICHAEL CROWDER was Professor and             Head of Department of History at the University of Botswana
from 1982 to 1985. He is currently a Senior   Research Fellow of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of
the University of London where he is writing  up his biography ofTshekedi Khama. Prior to his appointment
at the University of Botswana his interests   were concentrated on West African history on which he has
published widely.
MAURICE GLICKMAN M.A. (Brandis) Ph.D (Cambridge) is a Sociologist at the University of Botswana
with a special interest in Deviance, social, psychological and religious.
D.N.N. KHAPAGA W ANI, a graduate of Sussex University is a lecturer and Head of Department                of
Philosophy at Chancellor College, University of Malawi.
D.L. KGAT!-II studied at the University of Botswana and Swaziland as well as at the UN Institute for
Economic Development and Planning (Dakar). He is now Research Fellow at the National Institute for
Development Research and Documentation. His areas of research interest include the Rural Economics
of Energy and Industrialisation.
WEBSTER MASENY A studied at the University of Botswana and Swaziland as well as at Howard
University, Washington D.C. He is presently a lecturer in Economics at the University of Botswana.
!-lis interests are mainly in economic theory and quantitative analysis. Major research interests are in
foreign exchange policy issues and investment-related research.
MARGO RUSSEL who studied at WitwaterSrand University and at Essex University               is a Sociologist
currently attached to the Social Science Research Unit at the University of Swaziland.
PETER NANYENY A TAKlRAMBUDDE                   is Professor and Head of the Law Department as well as
Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and !-lead of the Department of Law at the University of Botswana.
Formerly he held teaching/research    appointments at law schools of Yale and Princeton Universities as
well as being Lecturer in Law at the University College of Swaziland. He is the author of Technology
Transfer and International Law (1980), The individual under African Law (1982) and several articles in
learned journals.